Mission in Focus: Featuring the Daughters of Charity International Project Services
Release Date: 06/28/2022
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info_outlineWith the different problems and difficulties that the world is facing now, it is important to have organizations, like NGOs, that can make the planet a better place to live.
For today’s episode, the Catholic Investment Services podcast and Dan Coyne welcome Sister Mary Louise Stubbs and Kathleen Bissa of the Daughters of Charity International Project Services to talk more about what their organization is, what their goals and missions are, and the projects that they have. They also share what the impact of the organizations have and why it is different from other NGOs. Sister Mary Louise and Kathleen give a run-through of how the process is: Starting from receiving the donations, planning and implementing, and choosing which project to use the funds for, and how you can be a part of the solution to make a difference in someone’s life.
Highlights
- Who the guests for today are
- Who are the Daughters of Charity International Project Services?
- What the International Project Services or IPS is
- What the history and mission of IPS are and how they’ve developed
- What the impact that IPS has: What are the different programs that they have
- How the Daughters of Charity is different from other organizations
- Where does the funding come from
- What the process of donation distribution is
- How does the organization prioritize which country and what project to work on
- How the sister works with the local governments and collaborators
- What they want people to remember about IPS
- The different sustainable enterprises, transformed from the donations to achieving break-even or profit for the organization
- If a project is turned down, where does it go from there?
Episode Resources - Connect with Catholic Investment Services
- https://catholicinvest.org/about-us/
- https://catholicinvest.org/about-us/#board-of-trustees
- https://catholicinvest.org/contact-us/
- Connect with the guests
- https://www.daughtersips.org/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-bissa-56a82b58